The Irish Renaissance in the early 20th century included a wealth of new plays written both in Ireland, and by Irish ex-patriots elsewhere. W.B. Yeats, Lady Augusta Gregory, and J.M. Synge were creating a new national theater of Ireland...

Book: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

So, "modern" is kind of a loaded term, but today we're going to talk about modern life in Europe, as it looked around the time the 19th century turned into the 20th. We'll look at what life was like in the rapidly growing urban centers...

From the stage to everyday life, theater educator Jo Michael Rezes studies queer identity and the spectrum of gender performance — in its success and failure. Aided by a delightful introduction of campy charm, Rezes explores the freeing...

An adaptation of Oscar Wilde's original tale of generosity follows a beautiful statue that transforms itself through acts of charity.

High in Heaven, God watches over the city. He sends an Angel to collect the most valuable things....

Traditionally criminology focused on criminal action and its control. Labelling theory widened the focus to include the social reaction to crime and its consequences. This film documents the rise and fall of labelling theory and...

An adaptation of Oscar Wilde's original tale of generosity follows a beautiful statue that transforms itself through acts of charity.

The Happy Prince lost his eyes. Now will the swallow risk his life to stay with him through the...

An adaptation of Oscar Wilde's original tale of generosity follows a beautiful statue that transforms itself through acts of charity.

A little beggar girl is on the street. Nobody in the town will help her, except the Happy Prince....

An adaptation of Oscar Wilde's original tale of generosity follows a beautiful statue that transforms itself through acts of charity.

A starving writer struggles to finish his work. The Happy Prince already lost a ruby, will he give...

An adaptation of Oscar Wilde's original tale of generosity follows a beautiful statue that transforms itself through acts of charity.<br/>
The Happy Prince wants to help a poor woman and her sick son. But what can he do? He’s only a statue.

An adaptation of Oscar Wilde's original tale of generosity follows a beautiful statue that transforms itself through acts of charity.<br/>
No gold. No jewels. The Happy Prince is a shadow of its former self. What will the townspeople think?

Questions and answers about Oscar Wilde.

An adaptation of Oscar Wilde's original tale of generosity follows a beautiful statue that transforms itself through acts of charity. A little swallow lands on a statue. He’s called the Statue of the Happy Prince, but is he really happy?

INTERVIEW: Terry George; Screenwriter 'Hotel Rwanda' On loving an Irish event, on being grateful to be chosen this year for the Oscar Wilde award, on Ireland considering itself almost an American state, on his next project 'Reservation...

MS PAN VIEW of oscar wilde statue / Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

A new artwork has appeared on the side of Reading Prison, quoting from a poem by its former inmate Oscar Wilde.



The Banksy-style artwork, which was not painted by the famous graffiti artist, includes a stanza from The...

A mural by street artist Banksy on the side of a former prison which housed playwright Oscar Wilde has been defaced with red paint.



The artwork, on the red brick wall of the former Reading Prison, showed an inmate escaping...

Funeral of French mime artist who died on Sunday

Paris, France - 26 September
2007
1. Hearse arrives at the Pere Lachais
e Cemetery
2. Close up Marceau's famous hat, seen though w
indow of hearse
3....

Next winter's Gucci guys are part rocker romantic, part dandy dreamer.

"Tormented poets," creative director Frida Giannini calls them in her show notes, men who have a passion for roses, and are committed to a...

A golden ring once given as a present by the famed Irish writer Oscar Wilde has been recovered by a Dutch art detective nearly 20 years after it was stolen from Britain's Oxford University (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

CLEAN : Paris hosts its first major exhibition dedicated to Oscar Wilde

A myth-busting exhibition at the Museum of London is exploring the character of fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.

It's a character...

WINTOUR PAYS TRIBUTE TO LAGERFELD'S GENEROSITY, HUMOR

Eng/French/Nat

Shot 3 please courtesy Tall Stories production company. Shot 6 Please courtesy Icon Entertainment International.
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The 52nd Cannes film festival prepared to award its top...